Google lost $125.00 since they announced results!

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Google lost $125.00 since they announced results!

Is this time to get out of Google or to keep the stock?

And is this the direction the company is going in terms of business etc.

 

[Theo]

Depends on when you got in. You can sell your current position, make profit, watch the trend and buy back in.

 

[GT Web]

Google lost $125.00 since they announced results!

Is this time to get out of Google or to keep the stock?

And is this the direction the company is going in terms of business etc.

Yes, let's all give each other financial advice...

Personally, I recently bought some shares of Google, I'm down a bit, but I'm not overly worried, because I'm in this stock for the long haul and they have plenty of interesting projects coming down the pipeline.

Plus, YSM is completely and utterly useless...even if Microsoft buys up Yahoo, it will take 24+ months until their PPC model is even comparable to what Google has going.

Let's also remember, the NASDAQ is down more than 15% in 2008 so far...

 

[Focus]

Good time to buy stocks imo...

 

[Luc]

Good time to stay away from stocks imo...

 

[jdk]

Yup b/c things are only going to go down further before they start to climb upwards. Definately invest in other things like silver or gold right now

 

[GT Web]

Good time to buy stocks imo...

Good time to stay away from stocks imo...

Exactly why I said there is no point discussing stocks on a domain forum.

 

[Poohnix]

Why buy stocks when there are domains? ;-)

 

[PRED]

Why buy stocks when there are domains? ;-)

:yes:

 

[JMJ]

Google is going to suffer in a lot of ways. One of those being the financial market in it's entirety. And then you have those that make their living from google. Lets use the domain industry as a great example. Google has made a number of moves in the past year or so thats putting more and more of a squeeze on our earnings. Grant it they are getting pressure from their paying clients but if you look at the reason PPC came to fruition in the first place then you can get a better understanding.

Before PPC there was only affiliate programs. As time went on those program managers were always asked to increase their bottom lines. The easiest way to do so was to cut the earnings of the advertisers (site owners). Who's going to notice if this guy or that guy didn't get paid on a sale? It got to the point that it really made no sense to display banners on your site because you the site owner wasn't making money from them. So site owners started selling their own ad space, selling per impression, and eventually PPC. Each time advertising managers of the companies were asked to cut their budgets and increase sales. The site owners have to increase their profits so they look for another solution. If you look around you are finding that more and more portfolio owners are setting up their own monetizing platforms.

Now take someone like Frank who at one time provided yahoo with an estimated 1% of Yahoo's search traffic and you multiply him by 100 who have set out on their own or are looking at doing so then you find a goohoo in the making. Point being is there's no sense in these huge traffic providers taking cuts from several different mediums when they can become their own medium and keep 100% of the share even if the share is smaller than the advertiser was paying google. Because by the time it gets to them their actually only getting probably 10% of what the advertiser is paying. With that said I'm not in the least bit impressed with the earnings on the 500,000+ a month traffic we're sending to the usual suspects. And thats after going through their various traffic filtering methods in place. So we will be one of those setting up shop on our own.